Home Depot Restocks Viral 12-Foot Skeleton: Release Date, Price, Dupes

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Skelly’s baaaaack. It’s by no means too early to arrange for Halloween, and spooky season fans can lastly get their palms on the viral 12-foot skeleton — a festive favourite of LA set designers and seen lately within the residence of Kourtney Kardashian Barker — that sells out yr after yr.

The magnificent Skelly ($299) has returned to House Depot along with his gang of big ghouls, together with a brand new seven-foot pet skeleton canine that’s proportionate to its outsized proprietor as a golden retriever is to actual folks. This yr’s large skeleton now has customizable LCD eyes with eight settings, and high-tech kits and accent units are additionally out there for many who have already got a Skelly.

House Depot’s Halloween ornament lineup additionally features a limited-edition 12-foot Servo Skelly with “lifelike head actions” ($379) that’s a web-based unique, a 12.5-foot Inferno Deadwood Skelly, a 12-foot Inferno Pumpkin Skelly and a brand new collaboration with NBCUniversal that includes animatronics of Frankenstein and Chucky. The seasonal collections be a part of the corporate’s present Halloween merchandise for common franchises, reminiscent of Disney’s The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas (discover a 13-foot Jack Skellington right here) lovely Hey Kitty and Bluey inflatables and different beloved characters.

It’s value noting that the house enchancment retailer is limiting on-line purchases on Skelly and different Halloween gadgets to 1 per order, and delivery begins round late August. House Depot says merchandise are in the stores in shops starting September.

Come Halloween, the 12-foot bone man is an everyday fixture in Hollywood. It’s a well-liked garden centerpiece at “Horror Row” in Burbank, the Los Angeles neighborhood that’s residence to skilled movie and TV set decorators.

Phrase to the smart: New Skelly house owners, you’ll desire a storage technique to comprise your new big pal (Redditors counsel stocking up on a number of bins).

Under, see all the bestselling Skelly decorations to preorder on-line earlier than they predictably promote out.